Chords for Newsies: The Broadway Musical - Santa Fe (Prologue)

I'm drinking my my penthouse high [Bb] above the stinking streets in New York.
You're crazy
You know what cuz I like a breath of fresh air cuz I like [G]
seeing the [F] sky and the stars
You're seeing stars all right
_ [Db] Them streets down there. _
[B] You suck the life right out of my old man _
_ Years of rotten [Bb] jobs stomped on by bosses [Dm] when they finally broke them
They [Bb] toss them in a pipe [C] just like yesterday's paper.
What ain't doing that to [Bb] me?
_ Everyone wants to come here
[Ebm] _ New York's fine for those who [Gm] got a big strong door to lock it out.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] I tell [Bb] you crunchy
[F] There is a whole lot of way out there _ _
[D] You keep your small life in [C] a big city
_ [G] Give me a [Gm] big life
[C] _
in a [Gm] small town _ _ _
They say [Dm] folks is dying [C] to get here _
[Gm] Me I'm [C] dying to get away _
_ To a [Dm] little [F] town [G] now West that's [C] spanking [D] new
_ [C] _ _ [G]
And [Bb] while I ain't [C] never been there I [Bb] can see clear [G] as day _
[C] _ If you want _ I'll bet [D] you you could see [Bb] it, too
_ [G] _ _
_ [C] Close your eyes
Come [Am] with me
Where [F] it's [G] clean [F] and green and [C] pretty [G] and [E] they went and [Am] made a city [Em] out of [F] clay
_ _ [C] _ [Dm] Quite a [G] minute that you get [Am] there folks [G] will walk right up and [Em] [Am] say
Welcome [Eb] home [Bb] son.
[Am] Welcome home [D] to Santa [G] _
_ _ Fe
[C] Splitting _ _ _ [Am] _ rails
[F] Swapping [G] tails [Dm] around the [C] fire.
Oh [G] chef for [E] Sunday [B] when you [C] lie [F] around
_ _ [C] all day
[Dm] Soon your [G] friends are more [Em] like [C] family [F] and they's [G] begging you to [D] _ [E] stay _
[Dm] Ain't that me?
_ _ [F]
living sweet [Gm] _ _ in [C] Santa Fe
[D] _ _ _ [C] _
You got folks there ain't got [Fm] no folks [Ab] nowhere well you _ [D] _ [G] I don't need [C] folks _ I
Got [Ab] friends.
Hey
_ Hey, hey
[Dm] What's about you come with me?
Huh?
[Bb] What no one cares about no bum [Ab] leg in Santa Fe
No, you just just hop a palomino.
You're riding [Eb] in style.
Oh, yeah, bitch of me [G] riding in style
Hey, I've been a few [C] months of [G] clean air and you you could toss that clutch for [Fm] good
_ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
We _ [F] won't let [G] them [Em] bastards beat [C] us we [G] won't [E] beg no one to [Am] treat us [F] fair and square
_ _ [C] _ [Dm] Is a life [G] that's [Em] worth the [C] living [F] and I'm gonna [G] do [A] my _ [E] share
[Dm] with the land
[F] Chase this John [C] swim the [G] whole Rio Grande [Am] just for fun
[C] _ _ Watch [F] me stare.
_ Watch me run _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Hey
_ [G] Hi
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
Don't you know that we's your [C] family?
I [Gm] would I let you [B] down?
Huh?
[C] No way _
_ _ _ Just [Dm] hold on key
_ till that [G] train makes
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Cm] Time _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ for [Cm] dreamin stun [Eb] yeah, [F] _
I expect [Eb] right sir [Cm] Henry _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _